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Chris Wallace-Crabbe on After Shakespeare: An Anthology and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, both edited by John Gross.
Reviews of About face: Asian Accounts of Australia; Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor; The Complete Book of Great Australian Women—Thirty-Six women who changed the course of Australia and The Conclave: A sometimes secret and occasionally bloody history of papal elections
Letters from Philip Mendes, John Haughey, Gavan Breen.
Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.
Why did Australians rally behind Van Nguyen yet appear to care little about the Bali Nine? The differing responses of the community to particular cases appears to be driven more by emotion and social identification than principles, or practical reason.
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
Peter Davis examines progress on the road to peace in the Solomon Islands
Morag Fraser meets recent travellers to East Timor.
Real peace is likely to come to Northern Ireland only when a new generation sets aside the long-dead icons of 1916 and 1922.
In many ways Elizabeth Bennet was a far more illuminating role model for the women of her time than her twittery descendant Bridget Jones.
Hardliners remain at daggers drawn, but their relevance is fading as Ireland embraces globalisation.
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